Claude has far fewer users than ChatGPT, but it is growing much faster. This page tracks how many people and businesses use it, and where.
01 · 9 stats
How Many People Use Claude?
Claude’s app audience grew many times over in the past year.
157 million monthly active users were on Claude’s mobile apps worldwide.
About 40 million customers spend under $100,000 a year with Anthropic.
111 million unique visitors went to claude.ai worldwide.
950 million visits went to claude.ai.
11.3 million daily active users were on Claude’s mobile app.
An estimated 40–60 million people were weekly active Claude users.
17.1x year-over-year growth in Claude app monthly active users.
452% was Claude’s year-over-year True Audience growth.
More than 1 million sign-ups for Claude came in per day.
| Month | Visits |
|---|---|
| Jan 2025 | 76.8 |
| Feb 2025 | 73.0 |
| Mar 2025 | 101.1 |
| Apr 2025 | 95.6 |
| May 2025 | 99.7 |
| Jun 2025 | 113.3 |
| Jul 2025 | 125.2 |
| Aug 2025 | 148.5 |
| Sep 2025 | 157.0 |
| Oct 2025 | 197.0 |
| Nov 2025 | 180.3 |
| Dec 2025 | 172.7 |
| Jan 2026 | 203 |
| Feb 2026 | 290 |
| Mar 2026 | 614 |
| Apr 2026 | 824 |
| May 2026 | 953 |
02 · 7 stats
How Does Claude Compare With ChatGPT and Gemini?
ChatGPT still reaches far more people than Claude, but Claude’s share of chatbot site visits is rising.
1.06 billion monthly active users were on ChatGPT’s apps worldwide.
9.6% of visits to six AI chatbot sites went to claude.ai.
61% of claude.ai users also used chatgpt.com in the same month.
14.4% of chatgpt.com users also used claude.ai in the same month.
40.3% of claude.ai users also used gemini.google.com.
14% of downloads of six leading AI apps went to Claude.
1% of people in six countries used Claude weekly.
| App | Aug 2025 | Aug 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 877 | 1060 |
| Gemini | 76.9 | 340 |
| Claude | 9.1 | 157 |
| DeepSeek | 119 | 116 |
| Grok | 38.5 | 91.3 |
| Perplexity | 46.5 | 56.4 |
03 · 6 stats
Claude Usage by Country
The US accounts for the largest share of Claude.ai use.
20.16% of Claude.ai usage came from the United States.
7.12% of Claude.ai usage came from India.
4.3% of US adults used Claude in the past week.
6% of US adults say they ever use Claude.
Nearly 14% was Claude’s US share of AI assistant users.
19.25% of US Claude.ai use came from California.
04 · 8 stats
Claude Use Among Businesses
Thousands of companies each spend large sums on Claude every year.
Over 11,900 customers spend $100,000+ a year with Anthropic.
Over 1,900 customers spend $1 million+ a year with Anthropic.
About 250 customers spend $10 million+ a year with Anthropic.
Over 50% of the Fortune 500 spend $100,000+ yearly with Anthropic.
8 Fortune 10 companies are Claude customers.
43.8% of US businesses on Ramp paid for Anthropic.
1.5 million users reached claude.ai through company logins.
An estimated 40% of US enterprise LLM spend went to Anthropic.
| Month | Anthropic | OpenAI |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 2023 | 0.15 | 24.49 |
| Aug 2023 | 0.19 | 25.35 |
| Sep 2023 | 0.58 | 26.37 |
| Oct 2023 | 0.77 | 27.11 |
| Nov 2023 | 0.86 | 27.97 |
| Dec 2023 | 1.05 | 29.23 |
| Jan 2024 | 1.07 | 30.24 |
| Feb 2024 | 1.09 | 30.45 |
| Mar 2024 | 4.34 | 30.71 |
| Apr 2024 | 4.93 | 30.19 |
| May 2024 | 4.78 | 30.58 |
| Jun 2024 | 5.46 | 30.61 |
| Jul 2024 | 6.87 | 30.77 |
| Aug 2024 | 7.75 | 30.75 |
| Sep 2024 | 8.44 | 31.61 |
| Oct 2024 | 9.13 | 31.97 |
| Nov 2024 | 9.86 | 32.43 |
| Dec 2024 | 10.18 | 32.77 |
| Jan 2025 | 10.63 | 33.79 |
| Feb 2025 | 11.03 | 34.82 |
| Mar 2025 | 11.95 | 35.46 |
| Apr 2025 | 11.86 | 37.2 |
| May 2025 | 12.39 | 38.49 |
| Jun 2025 | 13.61 | 39.17 |
| Jul 2025 | 14.93 | 40.06 |
| Aug 2025 | 15.66 | 40.77 |
| Sep 2025 | 16.02 | 41.02 |
| Oct 2025 | 16.65 | 40.67 |
| Nov 2025 | 17.25 | 41.13 |
| Dec 2025 | 17.84 | 41.0 |
| Jan 2026 | 21.16 | 40.85 |
| Feb 2026 | 26.98 | 40.88 |
| Mar 2026 | 33.73 | 40.05 |
| Apr 2026 | 38.19 | 39.39 |
| May 2026 | 40.7 | 39.32 |
| Jun 2026 | 42.08 | 39.15 |
| Jul 2026 | 43.21 | 39.45 |
| Aug 2026 | 43.53 | 39.51 |
| Sep 2026 | 43.77 | 40.63 |
05 · 10 stats
Claude Code Usage
Claude Code is the most-used AI coding tool in major developer surveys.
About 39% of professional developers worldwide used Claude Code at work.
65.5% of responding developers used Claude Code in the past year.
47% of US professional developers use Claude Code at work.
31% of developers use Claude Code most among AI coding tools.
91% is Claude Code’s satisfaction (CSAT) score among developers surveyed.
2x growth in weekly active Claude Code users since January 1.
4% of public GitHub commits were written by Claude Code.
20 hours weekly is Claude Code’s average run time per user.
55,930,237 npm downloads of Claude Code came in one month.
About 28.6 million installs of Claude Code for VS Code.
| Coding agent | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 65.5 |
| GitHub Copilot | 58.7 |
| OpenAI Codex | 29.5 |
| Cursor | 25.5 |
| Google Antigravity | 16.0 |
| Gemini Code Assist | 14.6 |
| Open Code | 13.6 |
| JetBrains AI | 12.8 |
| Windsurf | 6.5 |
| Warp | 5.2 |
| Cline | 4.5 |
| Pi | 4.4 |
| Amazon Q Developer | 3.9 |
| Continue | 3.8 |
| Mistral Vibe | 3.2 |
| Kilo Code | 3.2 |
| Devin | 2.9 |
| Google Jules | 2.5 |
| Replit Agent | 2.3 |
| Tabnine | 2.1 |
| Aider | 2.1 |
| Codium (Qodo) | 1.7 |
| BLACKBOX AI | 1.6 |
| Supermaven | 1.3 |
| Trae | 1.3 |
| Augment Code | 1.2 |
| Sourcegraph Cody | 0.9 |
| Emdash | 0.7 |
| Approxima | 0.6 |
| ECA | 0.6 |
| Sweep | 0.6 |
| Kavia AI | 0.5 |
| Syntropy | 0.5 |
06 · 8 stats
Who Uses Claude, and What For?
More US men than women say they use Claude, and many chats are work.
10% of US adults aged 18–29 say they ever use Claude.
9% of US men say they ever use Claude.
80% of self-reported weekly US Claude users have $100,000+ household incomes.
41% of US Claude users surveyed use AI daily.
43.36% of classified Claude chat and Cowork conversations looked like work.
23.8% of Claude conversations matched computer and math tasks.
22.72% of chat and Cowork conversations involved content creation and copywriting.
Nearly 50% of weekend Claude chat and Cowork conversations were personal.
| Job category | May 2026 |
|---|---|
| Computer and Mathematical | 23.8 |
| Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media | 13.55 |
| Educational Instruction and Library | 12.79 |
| Sales and Related | 9.14 |
| Office and Administrative Support | 7.89 |
| Management | 5.9 |
| Business and Financial Operations | 5.77 |
| Life, Physical, and Social Science | 4.51 |
| Architecture and Engineering | 3.56 |
| Healthcare Practitioners and Technical | 3.31 |
| Community and Social Service | 2.57 |
| Personal Care and Service | 1.23 |
| Production | 1.04 |
| Legal | 1.02 |
| Installation, Maintenance, and Repair | 0.62 |
| Healthcare Support | 0.62 |
| Food Preparation and Serving Related | 0.48 |
| Transportation and Material Moving | 0.34 |
| Protective Service | 0.33 |
| Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance | 0.13 |
| Construction and Extraction | 0.1 |
| Farming, Fishing, and Forestry | 0.04 |